Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 2 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 3 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 4 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 5 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't been sounding like a person who 's feeling better , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 9 | British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist . |